Description
Book SynopsisRichard Rolle - the Yorkshire hermit, visionary and transmitter of religious counsel - was widely recognised in the later English Middle Ages as a major spiritual author.
Trade ReviewThis will be an invaluable volume, obviously useful to those interested in its name author and his works, but also to all those engaged with later Middle English religious texts and their manuscript contexts. * Journal of the Early Book Society *
Hanna’s descriptive catalogue is an invaluable source of information for those interested not only in Rolle’s English canon but also in the compilation of the medieval English manuscript book itself. The 123 examples meticulously catalogued here offer an author-based insight into the reading habits and textual tastes of the later Middle Ages thoroughly examined and researched by a master in his own field. * The Library, Vol 12, no.2 *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Abbreviated references
- List of Manuscripts described, with table of equivalents to Ogilvie-Thomson's edition
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Richard Rolle in English
- The Catalogue
- Indexes
- o English Works of Richard Rolle
- o Associated English Texts
- o Associated Latin Texts
- o Associated French Texts
- o Incipits of Unindexed English Prose
- o Pre-Dissolution Owners
- o Book-Producers
- o Paper Stocks
- o Manuscripts Referred to but not Described
